Wasco County OR Archives Obituaries.....Thompson, Opal Mildred June 12, 2004
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The Dalles Chronicle,  June 16, 2004
     Opal Mildred Thompson, 90, a resident of The Dalles, died at a local care 
facility Saturday, June 12, 2004.
     She was born June 4, 1914, in Remsen, Iowa, the older of two children to 
Otto C. and Amy J. (Johnson) Gruenefeldt. She was raised and graduated from 
high school in Kingsley in 1932 and then attended the Methodist Hospital 
School of Nursing, in Sioux City, Iowa, graduating in 1936. 
     She married her school-days sweetheart, Emery Christian Thompson on Feb. 
27, 1940, in Kingsley, Iowa. He came to Oregon in 1936 and to The Dalles in 
1939 where he operated the Pines Dairy on Mill Creek Road. When the dairy 
closed, they continued to operate the 765-acre farm, raising chickens, beef 
cattle, growing peaches, apricots, sweet cherries and Zinfandel grapes and 
producing alfalfa hay.
     She was a member of First Christian Church and Good Sam Club, the Oregon 
Trail Chapter. She had been a member of Mill Creek Grange and a 4H Club 
leader. She enjoyed the outdoors, gardening, camping, R.V. travel and oil 
painting.
     She is survived by her children and their spouses, Linda and her husband, 
Alfred Schwider, Maple Valley, Wash.; Roger C. Thompson, Sandpoint, Idaho, and 
his wife, Jeni Thompson, The Dalles; grandchildren, Scott Thompson, The 
Dalles; and Dustin Thompson, Sandpoint, Idaho; Ward and Susie Schwider, Boise, 
Idaho; and Amy and Adam Wolf, Monroe, Wash.; three great-grandchildren, Becca 
Schwider, and Morgan and Sam Wolf. She was preceded in death by her husband, 
Emery, on June 23, 2001.
     Viewing visitation will be held at Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home 
on Friday, June 18, from 2 to 7 p.m. and on Saturday, from 9 a.m. to noon.
     Funeral services will be held at Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home 
on Saturday, June 19, at 1 p.m. with Asa Jenson and Mike Wilson officiating.   
Interment will follow at Three Mile Road Odd Fellows Cemetery, formerly 
Parklawn Cemetery. Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home is in care of 
arrangements.
     Memorials may be made to First Christian Church, 909 Court Street, The 
Dalles, OR 97058, Hospice of The Gorge, 751 Myrtle Street, The Dalles, 


Additional Comments:
Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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